224 Mortimer: opening of the tumulus "howe hill." duggleby. 
consumed by the mound builders, and the bones dropped where they 
were found. The total number of cremated interments, which were 
found in disc-formed circular heaps six to eighteen inches in dia- 
meter, and one to six inches in thickness, was raised to fifty-three,* 
of which nine or ten were found in the core of hazel-coloured clay, 
and the remainder in the layer of gritty chalk close above. Except- 
ing portions of burnt bone pins with Xos. 4, 10, 30, previously 
alluded to, nothing accompanied any of them. It is remarkable that 
not one of this very large number of burnt bodies had been placed in 
a cinerary urn. This large mound is also remarkable for the almost 
entire absence of British pottery and pot-sherds. Excepting the 
crushed vase with the body at the bottom of the grave, four very 
small sherds from the substance of the mound, and a very small 
fragment of a food-vase with the cremated deposit No. 12, no other 
pottery was found (w). 
Explanation of Plate VII. 
w. Is the inner mound of a clayey or earthy matter 5j feet in 
thickness. 
x. A bed of small chalk grit 4 \ feet thick, in which were 
most of the cremated bodies. 
y. Blue Kimmeridge clay, 12 inches in thickness, sealing up all 
the inhumed bodies, as well as the cremated interments 
which were found at various elevations as shown by the 
small circles ; but only a few were vertically over the 
grave. 
z. Roughly quarried chalk, 9 \ feet in thickness in the centre of 
the mound. 
:;: Marks the assumed original height of the barrow, which 
was probably 8 to 10 feet higher than the present flat top. 
o. Indicates cremated interments. 
* It will be observed from the plan (pi. viii.) that most of the cremated 
deposits are at the south side of the grave, and that they are sparingly 
distributed vertically over the grave. Had our excavation reached as far 
beyond the north side of the grave as it did on the south side very probably 
many cremated deposits would have been found on that side of the grave also. 
Therefore, possibly, the number of burnt bodies remaining in the unexplored 
portion of the mound might be nearly as great as the number discovered. 
